…something happened to me over the summer. I feel less defensive, more at peace. I would say I have developed more resilience. A layer of old grief has been stripped off. I know where to find peace in myself. That is my ‘coming home’.

“Meditation is a bodily practice.” I will never ever forget these words from Hamid as we prepared to start our meditation practice in Monchique, Portugal in a region called the Algarve. I had never been to Portugal and there I excitedly found myself with nine other practitioners (ahem…students…most of us hugely interested dabblers who had not yet developed a consistent practice). Also with us was Miri, our yoga teacher who was the other leader of this retreat, also a participant. That made twelve of us in total, with Hamid. I sat in a rectangular formation with my fellow learners and listened carefully.

"You might be tempted to pigeon hole Lorelei according to a job description, function, department or role. This would be a mistake. You will quickly discover that she is a highly creative individual with a collaborative bias and a network that spans the full range of a wide reaching set of interests and talents that are difficult to pin down with only ten digits. She is both inspired by and inspiring to those that have the good fortune to work with her." - Andreas Christodoulou, Information Technologist, Teacher, Qatar Foundation

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